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UMB Launches Program To Cultivate Middle-Schoolers' Interest in Cancer Careers

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Joe Burris

UMB will use grant money to launch a program aimed at inspiring interest in cancer research careers among middle school students. 

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A New Push to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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David Leonhardt

Michael Bloomberg's charity aims to raise the percentage of high-performing, low-income students who attend college by helping more apply. 

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Why Poor Kids Don’t Stay In College

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Jeff Guo

While college enrollment is at an all time high, for low-income students the road to graduation day is filled with obstacles and challenges.  

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Faces of Economic Mobility

Pew Charitable Trusts
Samantha Lasky
Will the current generation do better or worse financially than their parents? Check out this new interactive data tool that explores how education, family structure and race affect economic prospects in America. The data only include white and African American families.   
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economics, education, race, marriage
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Persistence and Luck: Covering Young People's Struggle to Complete College

Sarah Hogue
 “As often happens when you’re a reporter, one story leads to another,” said Emily Hanford of American RadioWorks. And when your beat is higher education, the stories lead into one another almost seamlessly.“Grit, Luck and Money" answers questions inspired by Hanford’s fall 2011... Read more
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2008 Winner, Project/Series, under 200,000 circulation: "Broken Trust"

Chris Davis
Chris Davis is a former education reporter and editor who helped create the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's investigative reporting team in 2003. He now leads the newspaper's I-team. The series was also a Pulitzer finalist in the Local Reporting category. Davis was part of a team that won a... Read more
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K-12 Educational Outcomes of Immigrant Youth

Future of Children Robert Crosnoe and Ruth N. López Turley
Within K-12 education, academic performance of immigrant students varies and can be defined by generational status, race and ethnicity, and natural origin
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Faces of Economic Mobility

Pew Charitable Trusts Samantha Lasky
A new interactive data tool exploring education, family structure and race.
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Were All Those Standardized Tests for Nothing? The Lessons of No Child Left Behind

American Enterprise Institute
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), a framework for education reform that expired in 2007, did not yield the results it intended, but was not a complete failure either, according to a May 2013 report.
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